# Julia Lovell
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julia lovell (born 1975) is a scholar and prize-winning author and translator about China. She is married to fellow author Robert Macfarlane.
== Life and career ==
Lovell is Professor of modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck, University of London, where her research has been focused principally on the relationship between culture (specifically, literature, architecture, historiography and sport) and modern Chinese nation-building.Lovell's books include The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature (University of Hawaii Press, 2006); The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC-AD 2000 (Atlantic Books, 2006); and The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (Picador, 2011).
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Julia…
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4.1 The Hall of the Monkey King: Introduction
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The Terracotta Army (Radio Edit)
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China: Imperial Collapse
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Beijing means capital of the north, and was first used by the Ming to distinguish it from Nanjng, capital of the south. Home to the Forbidden City where the emperors lived, th…
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